The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. A C20 House.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
white-parapet-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
House
Address
The Old Rectory, Brympton
OS grid reference
ST 525 175
Coordinates
50.95575, -2.67698
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory is a detached house, formerly serving as a rectory, built around 1900. It is constructed from cut and squared lias stone, featuring bands and quoins of Ham stone, and has a plain clay tiled roof with plain gables and a hipped south end. The building has rendered chimney stacks with offsets and is designed in a style reminiscent of the architect Voysey.

The house has a T-plan layout and consists of two storeys with attics. The west elevation has three bays, with the first bay slightly projecting as a gable. There is a plinth eaves course and casement windows with rectangular leaded lights, all featuring shallow triangular arches. In bay one, there are pairs of two-light windows on the ground floor, a four-light window on the first floor, and a three-light window in the attic. Bay two includes a mezzanine two-light window and a six-light window in a pitched roof dormer, while bay three has a four-light window below and a three-light window above. All ground floor windows have semi-circular arched lights.

At the angle of bay two, there is a matching stone porch with a hipped roof and fully glazed leaded doors. The rear of the building has extensions, including a bell turret on the ridge of the north crosswing. At the east end of this wing, there is a short lower wing that matches the main structure, ending in a small turret with a pyramidal roof, which has pairs of slit vents under the eaves on each face. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

The Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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